Regarding your CALEA comment. There seems to be lots of hand wringing about CALEA, but I have yet to hear of a school that was penalized in any way for having done something that does not comply. I have to say, at times it strikes me as a bit of a bogie man.
I do know of one very large school in New York City BTW that has an open wireless network. Pete Morrissey From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Coehoorn, Joel Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 10:14 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] guest wireless I will admit to having a completely open guest network. We don't even require a terms of service click-through, and it's not encrypted. We do have some strict throttling for file sharing/p2p traffic, and I have some decent auditing capabilities, so I can track down violations and restrict them later if needed, but that's about it. We do the same throttling and auditing on the regular network Our Admissions and Advancement offices *love* this: a candidate or guest comes on campus, and their device just works: never any 802.1x issues, never a problem with sponsorships or authentication. We're in a residential neighborhood, but I've learned not to worry about neighbors using our wifi: it's really a drop in the bucket. No one uses bandwidth like a college student uses bandwidth, and as I'm one of those who live just across the street, I can testify that leeching wifi from the college is a horrible personal wifi experience (also: before I came here and I had an hour long commute, and I can say that walking across the street to get to your office is *awesome*). We do strongly encourage students/staff/faculty to use the encrypted option, and the vast majority do on their laptops now, and some on their phones, but students love the open network for things like smart TVs, blu-ray players, etc. They feel this makes our network *better*. We have some game consoles on the open network, but Residence Life encourages students to plug those into a wired port (even providing cat5 cables at times), and many take them up on this. Really, the reason behind this policy is that we DO want to be "a hotspot for any neighbors or people wandering by". We want to be part of the community, and welcoming to guests. I am concerned about my CALEA exposure, but as a small school we've never had a request for data. This may some day force us to make a policy change, but in the meantime, I'd have a revolt on my hands if I ever tried to do away with the open SSID. [http://www.york.edu/mvptall.jpg] Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology York College, Nebraska 402.363.5603 jcoeho...@york.edu<mailto:jcoeho...@york.edu> [http://www.york.edu/Portals/0/Images/Logo/YorkCollegeLogoSmall.jpg] The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Timothy Fairlie <fair...@rider.edu<mailto:fair...@rider.edu>> wrote: That's interesting Heath. What's the reasoning behind the exclusion period? On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Heath Barnhart <heath.barnh...@washburn.edu<mailto:heath.barnh...@washburn.edu>> wrote: We have an open guest network, however, you do have to register with a name, email, and phone number. Guests have 3 days of access followed by a 3 day exclusion period were the device is not allowed on the network. Access is restricted to HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP/POP, SSH, and most VPN. We don't throttle the bandwidth. -- Heath Barnhart ITS Network Administrator Washburn University 785-670-2307<tel:785-670-2307> On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 15:40 +0000, Mark Reboli wrote: I am looking for information on what people do with guest wireless. Do you have open wireless on your campus? Do you have a password that everyone knows? Do you create special passwords for groups? Any assistance would be helpful. Thank you m [Description: MU Arches] Mark Reboli Network/Telcom Manager Misericordia University (570) 674-6753<tel:%28570%29%20674-6753> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
